#cognitionary

[thrillsought-blog]

cognitionary replied to your post:

cas: goodbye, i’m leaving. i’m not even welcome in my own house anymore.

         ❛ --- ... good god, the melodrama... ❜

[recurse]

how did connor handle the transition from working as a cop to working as a bartender? does she miss being a cop?

she is probably one of the most ‘curious about humanity’ muses i have ever written or created, truth be told and the answer to this question? is pretty reflective of this.

for a very long time in her existence she was the epitome of her job, so to speak — a bystander, a witness. she did a lot of ‘watching’ for the vast majority of her existence. learning, observing, adapting… it was actually only during the past century or so she started dabbling in human occupations. and she has taken up job titles and positions she felt were ones where she had more reason or opportunity to observe. 

she was cop for around 15 or so years, so she was on the force from around the mid-to-late 90s to the early 2010s. it was an occupation she’d not yet explored and was in a lot of ways something that represented consequences. as such? she did not choose this occupation or path out of any human-guided reasons like family legacies or to be part of what protects a hometown, etc. it was from a more curious standpoint… at the core of her decision? she wanted to understand humanity from that kind of vantage, to learn more of the laws, morality and more that shape this world to grasp the flaws present in the system so that she might better understand the other side of things. she wanted to better see what might drive a person to criminal acts and or what stands in their way that might create societal or social tensions, etc.

truthfully? she does not necessarily miss being a cop. she doesn’t miss the violence or the politics that coincide. she doesn’t miss the stigmas and stereotyping. she doesn’t miss seeing things she did not agree with happen all because of laws she had come to not fully understand the purpose of, etc.

and now? or rather, for the past around 6 or 7 years she has been a full-time bartender for the killington pub. she definitely feels like there is a lot more freedom to being a bartender, and she loves that freedom. to her? the transition was easy and comfortable.

[recurse]

👌👌👌 honestly, the amount of love you put into these characters and how interconnected they are is inspirational. i love seeing how much they've developed since u first introduced them. all the love and all the praise.

i’m gonna scream !!!

thank you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me, sly. i’m not crying, you’re crying. but seriously. i love connor and my other nerds that are now so connected to her world. and i can’t believe some of them are older than like 6 yeas in terms of how long i’ve written them. i’m so glad people are enjoying my nerds.